Can we run both while we migrate?

Yes. Cards are independent URLs, so you can move one department at a time and keep printed Blinq codes live until the batch runs out.

Do we need NFC cards to use Cardline?

No. Cardline is QR, link, and wallet pass first. If you already own NFC cards from another vendor, most can be re-encoded to point at a Cardline URL.

Can we import our Blinq data?

Export your Blinq directory to CSV, then drop the file into Cardline's CSV import. Names, titles, emails, phones, and links map automatically; anything unmapped is shown for review before cards are created. Existing QR codes keep working until you retire them.

Alternatives

Blinq alternatives

People rarely search for an alternative because a product is bad. They search because one specific thing stopped fitting. Below are the three reasons teams give for leaving Blinq, what Cardline does about each, and an honest list of the other options — including the ones we lose to.

Why teams switch

The three reasons people leave Blinq

Team administration

Individual-first tools make every card its own island. Switchers usually want brand lock and one place to update a job title across 40 people.

Cost per seat at scale

At 50+ seats, per-user pricing differences compound. Cardline is $7 per user per month on Business billed annually, with no hardware purchase required.

Proof that contacts get saved

Views are easy to report and easy to misread. The metric that matters is saves per view, which is the number Cardline puts on the dashboard.

Cardline

How Cardline answers those reasons

Same three items, in the same order, without changing the subject.

You are provisioning 10–250 people and want brand lock plus one-click central updates.
You want the contact-save rate reported as a number, not inferred from view counts.
You want per-seat pricing that does not require hardware to be useful.

And where Blinq still wins

Blinq's individual card design and onboarding are excellent — better polish than most of the category.
Their integration catalog is broader than ours is today, and their CRM connectors are shipped, not planned.

Read the full Cardline vs Blinq comparison

Other options